List of psychologists

This list includes notable psychologists and contributors to psychology, some of whom may not have thought of themselves primarily as psychologists but are included here because of their important contributions to the discipline.

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Specialized lists of psychologists can be found at the articles on comparative psychology, list of clinical psychologists, list of developmental psychologists, list of educational psychologists, list of evolutionary psychologists, list of social psychologists, and list of cognitive scientists. Many psychologists included in those lists are also listed below:

A

B
  • Arthur J. Bachrach, underwater and extreme environments
  • Alan Baddeley
  • Renee Baillargeon
  • Ahmed ibn Sahl al-Balkhi
  • Albert Bandura, social learning theory
  • Aron K. Barbey
  • Russell Barkley
  • Jerome Barkow
  • Dermot Barnes-Holmes
  • Simon Baron-Cohen
  • Deirdre Barrett, dreams and hypnosis
  • Lisa Feldman Barrett
  • Lawrence W. Barsalou
  • Frederic Bartlett, memory schema
  • Daniel Batson
  • Diana Baumrind
  • Geoffrey Beattie, body language, psychology in sustainable consumption
  • Gershon Ben-Shakhar
  • Hubert Benoit
  • Richard Bentall
  • Larry E. Beutler, systematic treatment selection
  • Alfred Binet, (Intelligence testing, first practical IQ test, the Binet–Simon test)
  • Robert A. Bjork
  • Ray Blanchard, sexology
  • Theodore H. Blau, first practising clinician elected President of the APA
  • Stephen F. Blinkhorn
  • Paul Bloom
  • Edmund Bourne
  • Gordon H. Bower
  • John Bowlby, attachment theory
  • Nathaniel Branden, self-esteem, objectivism
  • Franz Brentano
  • Shlomo Breznitz
  • Carl Brigham
  • Donald Broadbent, cognitive psychology
  • Urie Bronfenbrenner, ecological systems theory
  • Kelly Brownell
  • Jerome Bruner, child development
  • Emily Bushnell
  • David Buss
  • Brian Butterworth
  • Ruth M. J. Byrne

C
  • Mary Whiton Calkins
  • Donald T. Campbell
  • Susan Carey
  • James Cattell, helped establish psychology as a legitimate science
  • Raymond Cattell, factor analysis, 16 Personality Factors and the Big Five, fluid versus crystallized intelligence
  • Stephen J. Ceci, intelligence and memory
  • Jean-Martin Charcot
  • Nancy Chodorow
  • Noam Chomsky, (Linguistics & Cognitive Science)
  • Robert Cialdini
  • Kenneth B. Clark
  • Lee Anna Clark
  • Asher Cohen
  • Clyde Coombs
  • Cary Cooper
  • Suzanne Corkin
  • Leda Cosmides
  • Catharine Cox, (intelligence & genius)
  • Lee Cronbach, (testing and measurement)
  • Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, (Positive Psychology, Happiness & Creativity)

D
  • Martin Daly
  • Martin Dannecker
  • John Darley
  • Daniel O David
  • Raymond Dean, neuropsychology
  • Randy Dellosa
  • John Dewey, (Functional psychology)
  • Ed Diener, (Happiness)
  • Dietrich Doerner
  • Robin Dunbar
  • David F. Duncan

E

F
  • Norman Farberow
  • Gustav Fechner, founder of psychophysics
  • Leon Festinger, cognitive dissonance
  • Cordelia Fine
  • Susan Fiske
  • Edna B. Foa
  • Viktor Frankl, founder of logotherapy
  • Marie-Louise von Franz
  • Barbara Fredrickson
  • Armindo Freitas-Magalhães
  • Anna Freud
  • Sigmund Freud, (Founder of psychoanalysis)
  • Erich Fromm, (psychoanalyst)
  • Adrian Furnham

G
  • John Gabrieli
  • Gordon G. Gallup, Jr., mirror self-recognition (MSR) test
  • Francis Galton, (His book Hereditary Genius was the first social scientific attempt to study genius and greatness)
  • Laszlo Garai
  • Riley Gardner
  • Elmer R. Gates
  • Susan Gathercole
  • Bertram Gawronski
  • Kenneth Gergen, social constructionism
  • Hans-Werner Gessmann, humanistic psychodrama
  • J. J. Gibson
  • Gerd Gigerenzer, bounded rationality
  • Daniel Gilbert, (Social psychology, Affective forecasting)
  • Gustave Gilbert
  • Carol Gilligan
  • Fernand Gobet, cognitive psychology
  • Stan Gooch
  • Christian Gostečnik, clinical psychology and marriage-and-family therapist
  • Irving I. Gottesman, behavioral genetics
  • Richard Green, sexology
  • Florence Goodenough
  • John Gottman, marital stability and relationships
  • Elizabeth Gould
  • James Gross
  • Robert Grosseteste
  • Félix Guattari, founder of schizoanalysis
  • J. P. Guilford
  • Edwin Ray Guthrie

H

I
  • Bärbel Inhelder

J
  • William James, (James–Lange theory of emotion, psychology of religion)
  • Marie Jahoda
  • Kay Redfield Jamison, clinical psychology, bipolar disorder
  • Joseph Jastrow
  • Julian Jaynes
  • Arthur Jensen, (Heritability of IQ, Race and intelligence, g factor)
  • Marcia K. Johnson
  • Mark H. Johnson
  • Philip Johnson-Laird, cognition, psychology of reasoning
  • Ernest Jones
  • Mary Cover Jones
  • Carl Jung, (Analytical psychology)

K
  • Jerome Kagan
  • Daniel Kahneman, (Nobel Prize in Economics, behavioral finance and hedonic psychology)
  • Mieko Kamiya
  • Jacob Robert Kantor, organized scientific values into a coherent system of psychology
  • Nancy Kanwisher
  • Rachel and Stephen Kaplan, (Environmental psychology)
  • Leonard Katz
  • Alan S. Kaufman
  • Nadeen L. Kaufman
  • Alan Kazdin
  • David Keirsey
  • George Kelly
  • Harold Kelley
  • Otto F. Kernberg
  • Antoni Kępiński
  • Doreen Kimura, sex and cognition
  • Akiyoshi Kitaoka
  • Gary Klein, (pioneer in the field of naturalistic decision making)
  • Melanie Klein
  • Michael D. Knox antiwar activism
  • Brian Knutson
  • Kurt Koffka, (co-founder of Gestalt psychology)
  • Wolfgang Köhler, (co-founder of Gestalt psychology)
  • Lawrence Kohlberg, moral psychology
  • Heinz Kohut
  • Arthur Kornhauser, industrial psychologist
  • Stephen Kosslyn
  • Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
  • Fritz Künkel, we-psychology

L

M
  • Margaret Mahler, Hungarian, central figure in psychoanalysis
  • George Mandler
  • Jean Matter Mandler
  • James G. March, cognitive organizational psychology
  • Abraham Maslow, (Maslow's hierarchy of needs)
  • William Masters and Virginia Johnson, (Pioneered research into the nature of Human sexual response,diagnosis,treatment)
  • Rollo May
  • Rufus May
  • Dan P. McAdams
  • Francis T. McAndrew
  • David McClelland
  • James McClelland
  • William McDougall
  • Patrick J McGrath
  • Phil McGraw
  • Rivka Bertisch Meir
  • John Money
  • Peter McGuffin
  • David McNeill
  • George Herbert Mead
  • Paul Meehl
  • Jacques Mehler
  • Andrew Meltzoff
  • Ronald Melzack
  • Wolfgang Metzger
  • David E. Meyer
  • Stanley Milgram, (Milgram experiment)
  • Alice Miller
  • George A. Miller
  • Jacques-Alain Miller
  • Neal E. Miller, biofeedback
  • William R. Miller, (Motivational interviewing (MI))
  • Theodore Millon, personality disorders
  • Brenda Milner
  • Arnold Mindell, process oriented psychology
  • Walter Mischel, (Marshmallow experiment)
  • Munesuke Mita
  • Jacob L. Moreno, psychodrama
  • C. Lloyd Morgan, canon
  • John Morton
  • Yūjirō Motora
  • Orval Hobart Mowrer
  • Georg Elias Müller
  • Henry Murray
  • Hugo Münsterberg
  • Charles Samuel Myers

N
  • Ulric Neisser
  • Alexander Sutherland Neill
  • Erich Neumann
  • Richard Nisbett
  • Donald Norman
  • Kent Norman

O
  • Bill O'Hanlon
  • Charles E. Osgood
  • J. Buzz Von Ornsteiner

P

R
  • Rhazes, (polymath)
  • Otto Rank, (psychoanalyst)
  • Rosalie Rayner
  • Reimut Reiche
  • Ulf-Dietrich Reips
  • Daniel Reisberg
  • Robert Remez
  • Samuel Renshaw
  • Cecil R. Reynolds
  • Judith Rich Harris
  • Sylvia Rimm
  • Carl Rogers, (Person-centered therapy)
  • Eleanor Rosch
  • Paul Rosenfels
  • Robert Rosenthal
  • Barbara Rothbaum, virtual reality therapy
  • John Rowan
  • Philip Rubin
  • David Rumelhart
  • A. John Rush
  • Michelle K. Ryan

S
  • Jeanne Safer, psychotherapy
  • Eleanor Saffran
  • Tamaki Saitō
  • Virginia Satir
  • Shlomo Sawilowsky, psychometrics, construct validity for the multitrait-multimethod matrix
  • Daniel Schacter
  • Stanley Schachter, affiliation studies, two factor theory of emotion
  • Roy Schafer
  • K. Warner Schaie
  • Edgar Schein
  • Gunter Schmidt
  • Kirk Schneider, existential-integrative therapy
  • Erich Schröger
  • Walter Dill Scott
  • Martin Seligman, (Founder of positive psychology, happiness, learned helplessness)
  • Francine Shapiro, (Founder of EMDR)
  • Tamara Sher
  • Sara Shettleworth
  • Hunter B. Shirley
  • Morita Shoma
  • Volkmar Sigusch
  • Herbert A. Simon, Nobel Prize in Economics
  • Théodore Simon, French psychologist who developed the Binet-Simon scale
  • B. F. Skinner, (Founder of radical behaviorism)
  • Victor Skumin
  • Paul Slovic
  • Stanley Smith Stevens
  • Charles Spearman
  • Elizabeth Spelke
  • Sabina Spielrein
  • Clara Stern
  • Robert Sternberg
  • Saul Sternberg
  • Paul Stevenson
  • George M. Stratton, founder of UC Berkeley's department of psychology
  • Harry Stack Sullivan
  • Carl Stumpf
  • William Swann
  • Norbert Schwarz
  • José Szapocznik

T
  • Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari
  • Henri Tajfel, prejudice, social identity
  • Jeffrey S. Tanaka
  • Lewis Terman, (IQ, Genius, Talent)
  • Philip E. Tetlock (The Good Judgment Project, Forecasting, Decision making)
  • Sharon Thompson-Schill
  • Edward Thorndike, puzzle boxes, connectionism
  • L. L. Thurstone, pioneer in psychometrics and psychophysics
  • Edward Titchener
  • Edward C. Tolman
  • John Tooby
  • Ellis Paul Torrance
  • Anne Treisman, visual attention, object perception, and memory.
  • Jeanne Tsai
  • Endel Tulving
  • Elliot Turiel, founder of domain theory (primary challenge to Kohlberg's stages of moral development)
  • John Turner, collaborated with Tajfel on social identity theory and later developed self-categorization theory
  • Amos Tversky
  • David Tzuriel

U
  • Dimitri Uznadze

V
  • Douglas Vakoch
  • Alfons Vansteenwegen
  • Lev Vygotsky, (cultural-historical psychology)
  • Stuart Vyse

W
  • Henri Wallon, French psychology
  • Hans-Jürgen Walter, (Founder of Gestalt theoretical psychotherapy)
  • Margaret Floy Washburn, first female psychology PhD
  • John B. Watson, Watsonian behaviorism
  • Paul Watzlawick
  • Ernst Heinrich Weber
  • David Wechsler
  • Karl E. Weick, cognitive organizational psychology
  • Robert Weimar
  • Max Wertheimer, co-founder of Gestalt psychology
  • Drew Westen
  • Michael White, (Founder of narrative therapy)
  • Ken Wilber, transpersonal psychology, then integral psychology
  • Glenn D. Wilson, personality and sexual behaviour
  • Richard Wiseman
  • Władysław Witwicki, one of the fathers of psychology in Poland, the creator of the theory of cratism
  • Gustav Adolf Wohlgemuth
  • Donald Woods Winnicott
  • Robert S. Woodworth
  • Wilhelm Wundt, (One of the founders of modern psychology as a discipline, father of experimental psychology)
  • Karen Wynn

Y
  • Robert Yerkes
  • Irvin D. Yalom, (Existential psychiatrist)

Z
  • Robert J. Zajonc
  • Oliver Zangwill
  • René Zazzo
  • Bluma Zeigarnik, (Zeigarnik effect)
  • Philip Zimbardo
  • Kenneth Zucker

See also
  • List of clinical psychologists
  • List of cognitive scientists
  • List of developmental psychologists
  • List of educational psychologists
  • List of people by occupation
  • List of psychiatrists
  • List of social psychologists

Eminent psychologists of the 20th century


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